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Walker Of The Secret Service
is a 1924 collection which contains 13 short stories chronicling the
adventures of Captain Walker, who starts out as a bandit, reforms, and
joins the Secret Service. Most of them had originally appeared in
magazines (I was able to identify five of the original magazine
appearances with the help of The FictionMags Index).
CONTENTS:
Walker Of The Secret Service - Melville Davisson Post (D. Appleton & Company, 1924, $1.75, 288pp, hc) [Mystery]
01 · Chapter I: The Outlaw · ss
23 · Chapter II: The Holdup · ss
43 · Chapter III: The Bloodhounds · ss
66 · Chapter IV The Secret Agent · ss McClure's November 1918
82 · Chapter V: The Big Haul · ss
101 · Chapter VI: The Passing Of Mooney · ss
121 · Chapter VII: The Diamond · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1922
143 · Chapter VIII: The Expert Detective · ss Everybody's Magazine October 1920
166 · Chapter IX: The "Mysterious Stranger" Defense · ss Everybody's Magazine October 1921
186 · Chapter X: The Inspiration · ss The
Red Book Magazine December 1921 (?)
The question mark beside the
listing is because this story appears in two different versions, one
featuring Monsieur Jonquelle and one featuring Captain Walker (it is
unknown which character the version of the story in this issue features).
207 · Chapter XI: The Girl In The Picture · ss Pictorial Review January 1921
231 · Chapter XII: The Menace · ss
256 · Chapter XIII: The Symbol · ssABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Melville
Davisson Post (April 19, 1869-June 23, 1930) was an American author,
best known for his detective stories, who was born in Harrison County,
West Virginia. He became immensely popular as a writer starting with his
1896 short story collection, The Strange Schemes Of Randolph Mason
(Putnam). He continued to publish until his death. Much of his work is
set in the 19th-century West Virginia countryside, but he used a wide
variety of other settings as well.
His best-known works are the Randolph Mason series, published in three volumes, and the more successful collection, Uncle Abner: Master Of Mysteries (Appleton, 1918). Uncle Abner, a mystery solving, justice-dispensing West Virginia backwoodsman, was Post's best-known character. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written." Post’s Randolph Mason is a ruthless New York lawyer, not to be confused with the easy-going Squire Randolph who features as a sidekick figure in the Uncle Abner stories (or with Erle Stanley Gardner's more scrupulous attorney character with the same last name, Perry Mason).
His best-known works are the Randolph Mason series, published in three volumes, and the more successful collection, Uncle Abner: Master Of Mysteries (Appleton, 1918). Uncle Abner, a mystery solving, justice-dispensing West Virginia backwoodsman, was Post's best-known character. The 22 Uncle Abner tales, written between 1911 and 1928, have been called some of "the finest mysteries ever written." Post’s Randolph Mason is a ruthless New York lawyer, not to be confused with the easy-going Squire Randolph who features as a sidekick figure in the Uncle Abner stories (or with Erle Stanley Gardner's more scrupulous attorney character with the same last name, Perry Mason).
Post
wrote other short works, mostly detective fiction, including the
Monsieur Jonquelle series and the Walker of the Secret Service series
and many articles, essays, and treatises. Among Post’s longer works are Dwellers In The Hills (Putnam, 1901), The Mountain School-teacher (Appleton, 1922), and Revolt Of The Birds (Appleton, 1927), which are all underrated but indicative of Post’s varied and huge talent. His total output was approximately 230 titles, including several non-crime novels.
Still
rising in skill and fame, Post loved horseback riding and while riding
in 1930, he fell. He died of the injuries and was buried in Harrison
County.
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